Water-motor.



-F. RUCHTI.

WATER MOTOR.-

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8,1915.

1 9 1 82,2 1 2. Patented May 9, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 8, 1915. Serial No. 60,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED Roonri, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Akron, in the county of Summit, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Motors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same. i

The present invention is directed to improvements in water motors, and has for its object to so construct a device of this charactor that the wheel thereof can be rapidly driven from a suitable source of water supply such as for instance, a dam.

A further object of the invention is to provide a motor of this type having a novel form of water wheel.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a motor of this type so constructed that the water wheel thereof will float on the surface of the water received in the tank.

With these and other objects in view, this invention resides in the novel features of construction, formation combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan viewof the device; Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 8-3, of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a plan view of a modified form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing 1 indicates the tank, which may be formed from wood or cement, or any other material suitable, said tank having mounted on its bottom and centrally thereof, a bearing 2, the purpose of which will appear later.

Rising from the upper edge of the tank 1 are diametrically disposed uprights 3, said uprights being connected by a cross bar 4 which is provided with a central bearing 5, and in which is journaled the upper end of a shaft 6, the lower end of which is journaled in the bearing 2. Fixed to the shaft 6 is the bight of the yoke 7, said yoke hav- Since it is necessary that the wheel 10 should float on the surface of the water in the tank '1, the same is preferably made from wood, but it will be of course understood that the wheel can be in the nature of a metallic float. The wheel has fixed thereto a circular series of vertically disposed brushes 1&- which receive the impact of the water which flows from the pipes 15 and 16, said pipes leading from a suit able source of water supply. It will be noted that the pipe 15 has a neck 17, said neck being reversely bent so as to discharge the water in a direction opposite to that flowing from the pipe 16. v

In the modified form of the invention the supply pipes 18 and 19 are arranged so as to receive water from opposite points, and are only used when the tank 1 is placed between two streams or the like.

The tank 1 is provided with an overflow opening 20 to carry ofi the water discharged from the supply pipes, thereby keeping a constant Water level in the tank so as to retain the wheel 10 in proper respect to the supply pipes.

, What is claimed is:

1. A water motor comprising a tank, a shaft rotatably mounted in the tank, and a water wheel slidably associated with the shaft.

2. A water motor comprising a tank, a vertical shaft rotatably mounted in the tank, a yoke fixed to the shaft, a wheel slidably engaged with the shaft and arms of the yoke, brushes carried by the wheel, and means for conducting water to the brushes to drive the wheel.

3. A water motor comprising a tank, a bar supported above the tank, a shaft having its upper end journaled in the bar and its lower end j ournaled in the bottom of the Patented May a, rare. I

tank, a yoke fixed to the shaft, a Water Wheel In testimony whereof, I affix my signahfiViILg' a, eirculzl' segies of brushes carried ture, in the presence of two Witnesses.

t ere means or irectin Water a ainst o the brzshes, said Wheel bei g slidably con- FRED RUOHTI nected to the shaft and arms of the yoke Vitnesses:

and adapted to float on the surface of the J. W. FAILOR,

Water contained in the tank. WALTER WITNER.

coplel of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 01' I'atents, willflnton, 1).0'." 

